List of Muslim scientists

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Science in the Islamic world has played an important role in the history of science. There have also been some notable Muslim scientists in the present day. The following is an incomplete list of notable Muslim scientists.

Contents

[edit] Astronomers and Astrophysicists

Main article: List of Muslim astronomers
Further information: Islamic astronomy

[edit] Chemists and Alchemists

Further information: Alchemy (Islam)

[edit] Computer Scientists

[edit] Economists and Social Scientists

Further information: Islamic sociology, Early Muslim sociology, and Islamic economics in the world
See also: List of Muslim historians and Historiography of early Islam

[edit] Geographers and Earth Scientists

Further information: Muslim Agricultural Revolution

[edit] Mathematicians

Further information: Islamic mathematics: Biographies

[edit] Neuroscientists and Psychologists

Further information: Muslim psychology

[edit] Physicians and Surgeons

Main article: Muslim doctors
Further information: Islamic medicine

[edit] Physicists

[edit] Political Scientists

[edit] See also

[edit] References

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